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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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A photograph shows a street-art piece by Italian urban artist Tvboy on a destroyed Russian tank outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 1, 2023. (Dimitar Dilkoff via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian and Polish soldiers hold wreaths during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit to Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on January 11, 2023. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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A Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) poster displaying North Korean nuclear tests on February 12, 2013, at the CTBTO headquarters in Vienna, Austria. (Dieter Nagl/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 19, 2022. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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A Ukrainian artilleryman confirms targets near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on February 7, 2023. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers fire an artillery shell on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine, on December 4, 2022. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The Iranian flag flies outside the country's embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, on January 27, 2023. (Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)
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Experts
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
